One of these otters, notorious for holding hands together in their zoo exhibit, has passed away. Watch until the end.. the regrasp in the last 10 seconds is to die for :(....
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Women Run the Cities 2008
K flew home from AZ! And surprised me by registering for the Women Run the Cities 5K tomorrow. I decided a while back to take part in this 5K since it will be on my birthday! Tomorrow! So, we are going to get up early and run around downtown for a little bit with hundreds of other women!
What better way to start my 21st year of life?? :)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Emily's Book Club
I'm reading books like mad whenever I find myself not working on my new business, working in the studio, working out, or just working at loving life....
"The Monster of Florence" by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi.
Just got through reading the Introduction and the last part really gave me goosebumps. This book is based on real-life facts that occurred in the last couple decades.
Here's the ending of the intro for those whom are prepared to be intrigued:
"Between 1974 and 1985, seven couples-fourteen people in all- were murdered while making love in parked cars in the beautiful hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The case had become the longest and most expensive criminal investigation in Italian history. Close to a hundred thousand men were investigated and more than a dozen arrested, many of whom had to be released when the Monster struck again. Scores of lives were ruined by rumor and false allegations. The generation of Florentines who came of age during the killings say that it changed the city and their lives. There have been suicides, exhumations, alleged poisonings, body parts sent by mail, seances in graveyards, lawsuits, planting of false evidence, and vicious prosecutorial vendettas.
The investigation has been like a malignancy, spreading backward in time and outward in space, metastasizing to different cities and swelling into new investigations, with new judges, police, and prosecutors, more suspects, more arrests, and many more lives ruined.
Despite the longest manhunt in modern Italian history, the Monster of Florence has never been found. When I arrived in Italy in the year 2000 the case was still unsolved, the Monster presumably still on the loose.
Spezi and I became fast friends after that first meeting, and I soon shared his fascination with the case. In the spring of 2001, Spezi and I set out to find the truth and track down the real killer. This book is the story of that search and our eventual meeting with the man we believe may be the Monster of Florence. Along the way, Spezi and I fell into the story. I was accused of being an accessory to murder, planting false evidence, perjury and obstruction of justice, and threatened with arrest if I ever set foot on Italian soil again. Spezi fared worse: he was accused of being the Monster of Florence himself."
They say the Hannibal Lecter movies were based off the case of the Monster of Florence.
It's 12:29 in the morning and I'm already loving this book...
night.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
muffin recipe
You will appreciate this K and M! Enjoy! I like mine with slivered almonds!~
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The Holiday quotes
If you know me at all, you know "The Holiday" is bar none, my absolute favorite movie. Any man who can watch that for a date movie and be satisfied, is without question, a quality fellow. Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
These are quotes from Iris (Kate Winslet):
-I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.
-I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
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These are quotes from Iris (Kate Winslet):
-I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.
-I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
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possible?
Is this display of hampster bravery and flexibility even possible? I feel as if a touch of Photoshop might have occurred... from my muse' over at Cute Overload!
Starbucks obsession
Ever the dogs are obsessed with the coffee-giant... do they make turkey flavored Frappachinos yet??
where can I buy this puppy?
I must buy a Havanese puppy... this one is just too cute, the end is my favorite!
Buenos Aires Zoo commercial
Who ever thought we'd get the opportunity to see a commercial for a zoo... in Buenos Aires, Argentina? This one'll pull at your heart strings!!
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